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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects
of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside the field know her name.
Her work has been instrumental in the development of the late-twentieth-century design
ethic, and her early years working with architectural luminaries such as Louis Kahn and Dan Kiley
prepared her to bring a truly modern-and audaciously abstract-sensibility to the
Making the
Modern Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site analyses, and
numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer the first biography of this
adventurous and influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at the
age of eighteen with her family, going on to become one of the few women to graduate from Harvard
University's Graduate School of Design in the late 1940s. For six decades she has practiced
socially responsible and ecologically sensitive planning for public landscapes, including the 1970s
design of the Robson Square landscape and its adjoining Provincial Law Courts-one of
Vancouver's most famous spaces.

Herrington places Oberlander within a
larger social and aesthetic context, chronicling both her personal and professional trajectory and
her work in New York, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Seattle, Berlin, Toronto, and Montreal.

Oberlander is a progenitor of some of the most significant currents informing landscape
architecture today, particularly in the area of ecological focus. In her thorough biography,
Herrington draws much-deserved attention to one of the truly important figures in landscape
architecture.